Whirlwind Bible History To open this 3-Day study, we’re gonna’ do some whirlwind Biblical history. You ready? Let’s start at the beginning. The Trinity. Our God is “us.” He’s three, and yet he’s the shamah—our God is ONE. As the Old Testament unfolds, we see many glimpses of our Trinitarian God acting within the story, but none quite so clear as in the very moments when all of humanity rebels the most. For example, in the days of Samuel, all the people came to Samuel, and started complaining about the leadership style of their “unseen,” Triune-but-One God. They asked for a good-looking “visible” King to rule them. They wanted what all the other nations had. Samuel relents, and the people get their King—Saul; though God clearly demonstrates his sadness at their request in 1 Samuel 15. Nonetheless, even in light of humanities’ treachery, God remained faithful. In his extraordinary wisdom he brought about Samuel to anoint a new King. At the time, Samuel was known as a prophet, priest, and as a judge (their equivalent to a king at that time). Samuel was ONE man, and yet operated in THREE offices—prophet, priest, and king. God was going to preserve his Trinitarian image on earth despite human rebellion. Though the people wanted one “Senior Leader” (not a good thing, p.s.) God continued to lead his nation via a Triune/Multiplicity leadership model of Prophets, Priests and Kings. Each of these offices, to some degree reflects how each member in the Trinity interacts and relates in community and completion. This carried all the way through into the ministry Jesus, where he united, once again, all three of those offices together in Himself as the ultimate Prophet (Mt. 17), Priest (Heb. 4:14-16), and King (Mt. 21:1-11). The New Testament remains consistent in exalting Jesus as ONE, and yet under the Father’s will, and by the power of the Holy Spirit, Jesus works his ONENESS nature out in the MULTIPLICITESS nature of a church body with many gifts. We even see a shadow of the Trinity in the Triune offices of the New Testament in the Elder, Deacon, Deaconess (Trinitarian) model of leadership. What does this have to do with Artistic Community you ask? Well, thanks for asking. We’ll get to it in Day 2. For now, we want you to read through a few passages concerning the...

What would the fly on the windshield say? Nothing now. No, not the one on the outside, the one on the inside. You know, when you get to Gateway on a Saturday evening or a Sunday morning, if the little fly followed you into church and told someone what had been going on what would he say? I’ve heard from these flies (I don’t want to take this metaphor too far for fear that you actually start to think I talk to flies, like I’m some...

Well, here we are again. I don’t know if very many of you do a Thanksgiving Eve or Thanksgiving day service, but to me these services seem to just creep up on me every year. In the back of my head, I know they’re coming, but between our regular weekend services and gearing up for Christmas weekend, it seems that they just sort of appear out of no where. I find myself on the Monday before the service wondering exactly how...

Do you know what I’m talking about? You know….(long awkward pause)…. quiet song …… (long awkward pause with weird, random instrument noises) …. Loud song (scared to death from the shock of the loud sound, heart rate jumps through the roof). ….. beuler….beuler…. Etc. Picking up from last week’s episode we’re talking once again about creativity, and specifically about how...

Routine, Rut, habit, pattern, whatever you like to call it, we all get into them. Well, this week, we’re trying to Bust Out. Not necessarily on the podcast, but in our Worship Services. Have you found yourself there? You want to be creative, you want to do things that people aren’t expecting, and you want to do things that will inspire people to keep coming back. And yet, for some reason, we keep doing the same old thing....

We have a Saturday Night Service. This last Saturday night was February 14th. Know where I’m going? No, I’m not talking about the service we did, I’m talking about missing getting spend Valentine’s Day with my sweetheart. So, since we couldn’t do anything on Valentine’s day, we went out on Monday Night, the 16th instead, and it was a good night. Almost 7 years ago, my wife & I had our first...

I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about Creativity lately. I know that many of you are a part of creative teams at your churches and you all have your own process for how come to your end result. I’ve been wanting to write what I know about how to utilize creativity in the local church, and have had trouble narrowing down the ideas, so I just decided to start writing and work it out along the way. First, let’s start...

I just found a great article over on Chris’s page. Here’s the link: http://www.chrisfromcanada.com/?p=1033 Here are some of the highlights from the article: 12:37 Chris – 5 Elements of a Great Song – #1 Define Your Purpose 12:38 Chris – ‘Songs that have universal appeal fall in to that trap. They have no specific purpose and no specific meaning.’ 12:40 Chris – Lots of worship songs are filled with...

Tonight was our annual “Thanksgiving Eve” service. I think it’s a Baptist thing. I’m sure that other churches from other denominations do a thanksgiving eve service, but I had never been a part of one until I worked at a Baptist church. Anyway, it was a good service. We had a pretty normal turnout and it was a nice relaxed time of worship and giving thanks together. Because of the relaxed atmosphere, I felt a...

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